Does anyone know if there are any funtions in the Android Api's that can easily draw a Popup Balloon above a mapitem when the user creates an onTouch event on that particular item? Like in the Google Maps app.

Or do I have to draw a box myself on an overlay by using the Paint class?

I used that tutorial as well when I was first starting out. The "popup" that is display is called a "Toast", very usefull indeed, but I'm looking for something a bit different.Now I'm looking for an easy way of drawing a popup balloon (like in the GoogleMaps app) of a location that is touched

As far as I know there is no predefined way to drawing baloons on map view, you have to handle it by yourself.

In one of my draft applications I defined a baloon layout for this purpose and used MapView.addView method to handle this situation, and it works fine (if you want I can share the source code through email)